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Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Ereot, with ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Rumex acetosa, 
Rumex vesicarius, 
Bladder Dock, 
Sorrel, 
Katta mitha, saluni, 
choka. 
PoLYGONACE. 
He SB. Tv: 61. 
The Salt Range. 
Trans-Indus Hills. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Houttuynia cordata, 
PIPERACER. 
Bs Bids ve %8: 
Himalaya 
1-5,000 ft. 
Sultej Valley below 
Narkanda 
(Collett). 
Phyllanthus urinaria, 
Hazar-mani. 
KUPHORBIACE. 
BBs B vi 298. 
The Plains. 
Phyllanthus simplex, 
Lear Margins ENTIRE. 
PETALS NONE. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 
small, annual, pale green, smooth, branches in pairs.; 
leaves 1-3 in., ovate or oblong, base wedge-shaped, rarely 
heart-shaped or terminating in 2 sharp angles, stipules 
tubular, not fringed, soon disappearing; flowers small, 
pink or white, male and female separate, in terminal short 
leaf-opposed leafless racemes, 1-12 in. long, flowers on 
jointed or unjointed stalks, calyx of 6 circular sepals, inner 
3 much enlarged in fruit, thin, 2-lobed at each end, not 
fringed, stamens 6, styles 8, fringed, arising from the 
angles of the fruit, bent down; nut 4 in. diam., 3-angled. 
The juice is cooling, aperient, and diuretic. 
perennial, velvety, rootstock creeping, stem 12-36 
in., green, leafy, angular ; leaves 14-24 in., broadly ovate, 
stalked, heart-shaped, long-pointed, stalk 1-2 in., base 
sheathing, stipules long, linear, oblong, blunt; flowers 
minute in terminal leaf-opposed stalked spikes 4 in. long 
with 4-6 large white petal-like bracts 3-4 in. at the base, 
calyx none, petals none, stamens 3, carpels 3-4, united, 
styles 3, free ; fruit almost round. 
medium size to large, annual, rarely perennial, smooth, 
stem and branches angled, angles of branches, margins 
of leaves and sepals often minutely hairy ;-leaves $-2 in., 
in 2 lines, overlapping, oblong or linear-oblong, tip 
rounded or short-pointed, sessile, stipules target-shaped ; 
flowers minute, green, axillary, nearly sessile, males and 
females on the same plant, solitary or clustered, male 
flowers, calyx of 6 circular sepals, stamens 38, rarely 5, 
more or less united at the base, female flowers, calyx of 6 
oblong sepals, styles 8, with 2 hooked arms; capsule 
;; in., prickly, hard, brittle with three 2-valved lobes, 
seeds transversely furrowed. This plant is said to 
be used as a diuretic and as a cure for jaundice. ° 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
